Evolutionary change of higher education driven by digitalization


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A. Original Set-Up 
The prior set-up of the course was very traditional. The 
course structure is divided into three elements: the preparation, 
the obligatory seminar and exam, and the feedback. Input 
lectures with small break-out and discussion sessions built the 
basis of the preparation. Based on that, the students worked on 
a preparation task in teams for an associated two-day 
“knowledge transfer” workshop. The workshop (seminar) itself 
consisted of intensive work and discussions on case studies. 
The results were presented before the whole class with the 
respective discussions as the exam of the course. Personal 
feedback followed in the last lecture slot. 
Figure 3 illustrates the prior course structure. The module 
was based on the attendance of the students using the presence 
platform as the main medium. Information, instructions and 
dates were published through the course management system, 
but no input of any content was provided this way. The old 
structure of the course is not suited to address (1) the above 
stated intentions and (2) a possible lack of the students´ 
knowledge when starting the workshop. Due to the abolishing 
of obligatory presence in the lecture, the attendance of the 
students was highly fluctuating resulting in (1) a lack of basic 
knowledge on the topic and (2) a very heterogeneous level of 
knowledge. 
B. New Course Structure 
As presented before there are many reasons for the 
reorganization of the course. The concrete design and 
explanations for the decisions of the chosen approach is 
addressed in the following. 
In addition to the requirements from the lecturers´ 
perspective, the concrete requirements for actually designing 
the course from the students´ perspective have to be 
considered. As most of the students of the course can be 
associated to Generation Y or several even to Generation Z
the challenge covers as minimal physical presence as possible, 
availability of mobile contents for learning anywhere and 
anytime, virtual exchange for questions and solving tasks or 
preparing for the exam, respectively. 
As a consequence the following elements were created and 
combined in a blended-learning, flipped classroom approach, 
also based on experiences made or written down by other 
researchers [3 13]: 
• Theoretical and conceptual input was divided into small 
(15-20 minutes) and medium-sized (30-45 minutes) 
logical and coherent pieces and provided as streaming 
videos for all mobile devices, completed by a 
(traditional) set of slides (IBM-based, but self-
developed course management system of the 
university). 
• Preparation task based on that input for teams working 
on a case study; teams could choose to either virtually 
or physically prepare the task (platform chosen by 
students). 
• Two day presence seminar (workshop) for transferring 
the theoretical and conceptual input onto the case 
studies. 
• Preparing of a 20-minute video based on specific tasks 
and with clear requirements as the result of the 
workshop and as first part of the exam (technology for 
videos chosen by students). 
• Sharing the video with the course mates and preparing a 
discussion with one other group (using course 
management system). 
• Discussion in presence with two teams and reflecting 
the results as second part of the exam. 
• Written and oral feedback for teams in either skype or 
presence sessions. 
There are two reasons why the course is not completely 
transferred into a MOOC. Firstly, studies at the university are 
designed as presence training, where students attend most of 
the modules still in person. Secondly, other scientists noted that 
it is not efficient for all set-ups to replace the presence 
completely through online educational material [3, 13, 14].
The redesigned course also combines the three structural 
elements: preparation, seminar and exam, and feedback. The 
main change is the integration of other media into the course 
design. In the described field test a larger variety of virtual 
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